In most teams, you won’t be doing any real development. They dog food their own platform to develop everything like it’s the only chow in the world. Similar to how Salesforce builds apps on top of Salesforce using that shitty apex language and apis, you’ll be doing the same thing at servicenow and will be highly specialized and won’t get experience in any transferrable skills.

They have public online documentation and training videos on YouTube. You can even request your own demo instance to try the platform out. Essentially, the entire platform boils down to a low code crud form builder that’s fairly customizable. It all runs on server side javascript as the scripting engine, using Mozilla Rhino so the javascript version is hella old and they will probably never update Java because they are tied to Rhino. Forget about using any standardized technology at now.

I guess he’s taking about QBO. Backend is a monolith written in Java. Front end (web) is written using a home grown “plugin” system that’s similar to using small react projects. Front end code for web is almost all react. Mobile clients are written in native languages and you’re not forced to use something like react native.

Senior is the most common level. There are many engineers who have 10 yoe, who are senior. So no it's not low. The levels at Intuit may be different than SN. At Intuit were working to standardize the skills and requirements at each level, but that's a work in progress, so as of right now, leveling is done at the team level.

I would say there's room for growth but demonstrating that you have staff level skills and getting a promotion would be dependent on where you land in the company.

In the end, if you feel like the level will sway your decision to take SN over Intuit, tell your HR that you want to be reconsidered and that you have a competing offer. This would be your only time to do that.

serviceNow : Good money, stock is increasing rapidly. Intuit is also goodIntuit is taking a turn towards open source which would be helpful in general whereas in ServiceNow you will be working on their technology ( on ServiceNow platform - everything revolves around platform)

They really do dog food their own shit like a dog that was just rescued from an animal shelter. One time someone was working on a spreadsheet in Excel, then the legendary David Goliath Loo passed by and shouted at him for not doing it in the platform.